Building record 468 - Ship Inn, Walton Inferior

<1> Department for the Environment, Various, Provisional List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Runcorn R.D. File 2335/11/A. 1954, p.56, No.2/2. (Report). SCH2744.

Ship Inn, Walton Inferior. Eighteenth century, altered. Two storeys, red brick and slate roof. Formerly listed at Grade III.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ 68 NW 62 (Index). SCH2487.

[RL 05-OCT-60] Field Investigators Comments: The published name was confirmed, and the list description verified. The building has been very much altered and modernised. [TPW 30-JAN-64] Field Investigators Comments: Not architecturally outstanding.

<3> Lewis, D, 2006, Warrington Borough Council Executive Board Report: List of Locally Important Buildings and Structures of Architectural or Historic Interest (Report). SCH7730.

<4> Donald Insall Associates, 2014, The Former Ship Inn, Walton; Heritage Assessment (Client Report). SCH9110.

The Ship Inn itself has been extended from its original form in stages. Originally a two storey four up, four down’ structure, most probably a cottage or small house. The original building had gable end chimney stacks and a broadly symmetrical front elevation, with a near-central front door and windows either side at each floor level. An extension to the west side with a sloping roof may have been part of the original build or may have been added soon after. It was probably a wash house.

A postcard from the early 1900s shows a brick building, painted white, with a slate roof and clay ridge tiles, a cast iron eaves gutter, and unpainted brick gable chimney stacks with buff-coloured terracotta chimney pots. The building has a central front door of standard width, with a painted sign above. The front windows are simple three light casements of a semi-oriel design. There are further single storey extensions to the property on the east side and to the rear which may date from the 1890s and 1960s.

<5> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 249/2, 1844 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts the inn. It is described as The 'Ship' Public House.